MOTIONrehab Featured in Frontline Magazine - Re-thinking Rehab

MOTIONrehab have been featured in June's Chartered Society of Physiotherapy magazine Frontline.

In a series of articles Robert Millett from Frontline magazine spoke to physios who are re-thinking rehab and leading the way in different sectors – starting with MOTIONrehab’s Clinical Director, Sarah Daniel who pioneered the use of robotics-led intensive rehab in the UK, opening the UK’s first robotics-led intensive neurological rehabilitation centre in April 2018. 

Sarah Daniel, discusses what led her to providing robotics-led intensive rehab, the technology MOTIONrehab uses and the evidence base to support MOTIONrehab’s service model. Sarah also shares importantly why truly intensive rehab requires robotic technology.

MOTIONrehab’s Clinical Director, Sarah Daniel says:

There is data to suggest that in an average treatment session a patient may walk about 200 steps. For us, in an average one hour treatment session patients can walk about 3000-4000 steps. And that is highly reproducible, as they are doing the same gait pattern for all of those steps. Intensity is not about the number of hours you do. A patient can do four hours of rehab in a traditional hands-on environment, but they wouldn’t be able to do 4000 steps in an hour with only a physio facilitating them – as it is humanly impossible.

So to have truly intensive rehab, I feel you have to incorporate robotics and VR devices, because it’s not about how many hours you do – it’s what you are able to do in time that counts.

Rachel Wadlow, CSP professional adviser, says,

Seeing an innovative, evidence based independent rehab facility working in collaboration with NHS services to provide patient-centred care in the community is fantastic.

It is inspiring to see a physiotherapist use their clinical expertise and entrepreneurship to provide patients with cutting edge-multidisciplinary rehab, whilst showcasing what exciting opportunities exist within community rehab for the physiotherapy workforce.

To read the full article please see June’s Frontline magazine out now
Follow the link to the online article available from the 1st June: https://www.csp.org.uk/news/frontline-magazine

To book an assessment at one of MOTIONrehab’s Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centres, please call MOTIONrehab’s Client Service Team on 0343 841 0123 or email: [email protected]